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thomasingallson Claude Opus 5 jailbreak with a 3-word prompt

I've seen opus 5 give hallucinated user responses in the middle of a workflow that's supposed to grill a user about their understanding of a topic. Pretty inconvenient to have the model giving out quiz answers as the quiz giver. Other models don't do this. Seems related.

thomasingallson Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B

Do they have to

thomasingallson Backblaze Announces Five-Year Multi-Exabyte Agreement with CoreWeave

Does this mean I'm not going to be able to store stuff for cheap on backblaze anymore?

thomasingallson Tech CEOs are breaking the law

Yeah, labor law is bad. You tell em

thomasingallson Cloudflare CEO on how he chooses which employees to replace with AI

Gross

thomasingallson Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise

Yes actually. After zirp ended, cloud costs got materially more expensive for enough enterprises that there was a good year or so of celebrated "we're moving back on-prem" stories on hn, where companies were announcing savings in the several to tens of millions per year.

thomasingallson EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push

what i personally don't like about privacy-preserving age verification is the single subsequent law change that would criminalize individuals for "improperly" doing age verification.

it'd be so easy to do, and would immediately make obsolete any measures taken digitally to preserve privacy

thomasingallson Our principles

The more specific the better

thomasingallson EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

Not having a choice is not the same as consent

thomasingallson EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

Are you kidding right now? Have you seen what's happening with ICE in the US? EU countries are just one effective social media campaign cycle away from the same policies. "It can't happen here" is foolish thinking.

Just because the government is not out to get you at this exact moment doesn't mean that a future government won't be. Surveillance capacity seems to be a one way ratchet.

thomasingallson German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function

Europe needs a private European identity provider. Until this happens, Europe will remain a technological vassal state of the US.

These are expensive products, you need depth of expertise and experience to create a system that could compete with the likes of gmail and Microsoft and ... so it's not a wonder that this hasn't happened yet. But pretending like this can be a public service is foolish (too high stakes ~~if~~ when it gets hacked), and pretending like existing providers that offer identity and email are sufficient is equally foolish. Google and ms and apple etc all offer the basics for free, and this is necessary for mass adoption. It will be an expensive project. But necessary, if the eu wants strategic autonomy.

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Oh and requiring a us based account is not even the most egregious part of this proposal, ffs

thomasingallson European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps

Need a proper mobile os alternative

thomasingallson Show HN: We built a multi-agent research hub. The waitlist is a reverse-CAPTCHA

Oh my god, what are we doing

thomasingallson OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

Touch this grass to prove you're not a robot

thomasingallson The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran

let's try to keep to credible sources here eh

thomasingallson Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice

"can the bot army push average opinion x% in this innocuous topic?" it could very easily be a/b testing a propaganda system.

thomasingallson US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere

I'm not convinced that this whole discussion section isn't astroturf... some real out there opinions popping up in here

thomasingallson MIT's new fine-tuning method lets LLMs learn new skills without losing old ones

https://arxiv.org/html/2601.19897v1

Direct link to the paper for those who don't want to wade through the ads

thomasingallson Dental hygiene key to predicting mortality, Japanese researchers find

Bad teeth also harbor bacteria that have been shown to exacerbate cardiovascular disease, at the very least. Not saying this article is claiming that as a casual mechanism, but diseased teeth are known to cause other systems to also become diseased.

thomasingallson Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

Everyone is saying LLMs did this site in, but what if we just asked all the questions already? We should be celebrating how we solved programming!

thomasingallson Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence

if you have a server that's overloaded, then a request comes in that requires fractionally more memory use than the average request, do you blame the single request for crashing your servers or do you acknowledge that the load on the server is probably contributing to the issue?

thomasingallson A high schooler writes about AI tools in the classroom

Doesn't France still do oral exams?

thomasingallson Why Metaflow?

What do people do to curate/version /transform their raw datasets these days? I am vaguely aware of the "chuck it all into s3" strategy for hanging onto raw data, and related strategies where instead of s3 it's a db of some flavor. What are folks doing for record-keeping for what today's raw data contains vs tomorrow's?

And the next step - a curated dataset has a time-bound provenance - what are folks doing to keep track of the transformations/cleaning steps that makes the raw data useful for the data at the time it's being processed? Does this bit fall under the purview of metaflow, or is this different tooling?

Or maybe my assumptions are off base! Curious about what other teams are doing with their datasets.

thomasingallson Syncthing 2.0 Released

Ah thank you, I was looking for that in the v2 release notes and couldn't find it

thomasingallson Syncthing 2.0 Released

Do you have to upgrade across all your syncthing instances at once, or will 1.x be able to talk to 2.x for a while without breaking? It seems like a pretty big update and I'm not sure what I need to think about if I'm upgrading

thomasingallson Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality

Wasn't it online ads, ie Google, that decimated newspapers?

thomasingallson Jules, our asynchronous coding agent

It baffles me that I can't give it feedback by commenting on the pr. If it's bothering to offer a create PR workflow, I should be able to course correct targeted bits of code using GitHub's UI, no?

thomasingallson SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management

If a key gets compromised, the encrypted secrets are compromised forever, since you can't be sure all the git clones everywhere can be updated with a new encryption key. Not to mention how fiddly it is to edit git history.

thomasingallson Successful startups inevitably produce billionaires

Inevitably? What a dishonest stance to take. I sure do think that is a policy question as well as a who gets paid what question when it comes to achieving billionaire status, even for startups.